a:3:{s:7:"widgets";a:1:{i:0;a:4:{s:5:"title";s:0:"";s:4:"text";s:1539:"Peter Edwards (b. 1978) is an American artist, musician, and teacher. He has been exploring the field of circuit bending and experimental musical electronics and is best known for his DIY experimental electronics website Casper Electronics. He has spent the last decade exploring the practice of electrical hacking and engineering and shares his findings with others through this site. 

 Edwards received a BFA in sculpture from The Rhode Island School of Design in 2000.  In 2005 he developed the creative electronics department at Hampshire College. From 2010-2011 he attended electrical engineering and mathematics courses at Hudson Valley Community College and in 2014 he received a Masters in Music from the Royal Conservatory of The Hague in The Netherlands.
 
He has taught workshops and spoken on the topic of circuit hacking and creative electronics at MIT’s Media Lab, Hasbro Toys, The V&A Museum, Hampshire College, Skidmore College, New York University, Bloomfield University, Long Beach University, Georgia Southern University and at new media festivals around the world including The Piksel Festival (Bergen, Norway), The OFFF Festival and Pixel Festival (Paris, France), Transmediale (Berlin, Germany), Sequences Festival (Reykjavik, Iceland) Bent Festival (New York & LA, USA). He has also written electronics tutorials for American DIY tech magazine Make. 
 
Edwards currently lives in The Hague, NL teaching DIY Electronics at the Royal Academy of Art and simultaneously studying instrument design at STEIM, Amsterdam.";s:6:"filter";b:1;s:11:"panels_info";a:6:{s:5:"class";s:14:"WP_Widget_Text";s:3:"raw";b:0;s:4:"grid";i:0;s:4:"cell";i:1;s:2:"id";i:0;s:5:"style";a:1:{s:18:"background_display";s:4:"tile";}}}}s:5:"grids";a:1:{i:0;a:2:{s:5:"cells";i:3;s:5:"style";a:0:{}}}s:10:"grid_cells";a:3:{i:0;a:2:{s:4:"grid";i:0;s:6:"weight";d:0.333333333333333314829616256247390992939472198486328125;}i:1;a:2:{s:4:"grid";i:0;s:6:"weight";d:0.333333333333333314829616256247390992939472198486328125;}i:2;a:2:{s:4:"grid";i:0;s:6:"weight";d:0.333333333333333314829616256247390992939472198486328125;}}}